Among the announcements presented at today’s Star Wars Celebration 2023 is the return of the acclaimed series that follows Rogue One character Cassian Andor. Andor season 2 was being written during the first season’s production and had been shooting since last November. The teaser for the next season of the Disney+ Star Wars series was debuted at the celebration after the announcement by the show’s creator, Tony Gilroy, that the new season is due to hit home screens sometime in August 2024.
Deadline reports that Gilroy has stated, “We started shooting in November. We’re halfway. We will finish shooting in August, a year on post, and we’ll come out in the following August.” Gilroy also talked about how the writers planned the show’s ending with this coming season. He stated that they were “very pleased” with the series coming to its conclusion in the near future because...
Deadline reports that Gilroy has stated, “We started shooting in November. We’re halfway. We will finish shooting in August, a year on post, and we’ll come out in the following August.” Gilroy also talked about how the writers planned the show’s ending with this coming season. He stated that they were “very pleased” with the series coming to its conclusion in the near future because...
- 4/7/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: UTA partner Bec Smith, a company vet of 16 years, is leaving the agency, we can reveal.
Working in the Motion Picture Literary department, the respected Australian native has built a strong internationally-oriented client list (some of whom she has worked with since their first short films) including Garth Davis, Maria Schrader, Goran Stolevski, Oliver Hermanus, Joshua Oppenheimer, Warwick Thornton, Na Hong-Jin, Eva Husson, Emily Atef, Agnieszka Holland, Phillip Noyce, Ellen Kuras, Benedict Andrews, James Ponsoldt, Anthony Chen, Levan Akin, Katrin Gebbe and Andor director Ariel Kleiman.
We hear Smith is likely to segue to management — there has been interest from multiple companies over the years — where she will be able to flex her producorial instincts. Most of her clients are expected to follow.
The timeline for her departure from UTA is understood to be in the 4-6 week range.
Smith’s exit from UTA coincides with a layer of layoffs at the agency.
Working in the Motion Picture Literary department, the respected Australian native has built a strong internationally-oriented client list (some of whom she has worked with since their first short films) including Garth Davis, Maria Schrader, Goran Stolevski, Oliver Hermanus, Joshua Oppenheimer, Warwick Thornton, Na Hong-Jin, Eva Husson, Emily Atef, Agnieszka Holland, Phillip Noyce, Ellen Kuras, Benedict Andrews, James Ponsoldt, Anthony Chen, Levan Akin, Katrin Gebbe and Andor director Ariel Kleiman.
We hear Smith is likely to segue to management — there has been interest from multiple companies over the years — where she will be able to flex her producorial instincts. Most of her clients are expected to follow.
The timeline for her departure from UTA is understood to be in the 4-6 week range.
Smith’s exit from UTA coincides with a layer of layoffs at the agency.
- 2/16/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
With "Andor" season 1 in the bag, it's fair to say showrunner and creator Tony Gilroy and his fellow creatives have exceeded expectations with their "Rogue One" prequel series. What might have been little more than another log to add to the fire that is Disney+ and its never-ending supply of exclusive films and shows has emerged as perhaps the greatest "Star Wars" project released by the Mouse House to date. Heck, it's arguably in contention for the distinction of best live-action "Star Wars" title ever. Yes, really.
In its first season, "Andor" not only revealed the origins of the titular "Rogue One" character, but it also shined a light on the early days of the Rebel Alliance, painting the organization and its founding members in far richer shades of grey rather than the clear-cut heroes seen in the original "Star Wars" trilogy. But for as much as the show has...
In its first season, "Andor" not only revealed the origins of the titular "Rogue One" character, but it also shined a light on the early days of the Rebel Alliance, painting the organization and its founding members in far richer shades of grey rather than the clear-cut heroes seen in the original "Star Wars" trilogy. But for as much as the show has...
- 11/25/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
If you have been enjoying "Andor" like we have, you'll be thrilled to know it won't be long before the production gets up and running again in a galaxy far, far away. Showrunner Tony Gilroy revealed in an interview with Collider that filming will start in only a couple of weeks. He told the website that the cameras will roll on "the Monday before Thanksgiving," and if you've got your calendar nearby, that means production will begin on November 21. Yeah, we weren't kidding with that headline.
While their full interview has not been published as of this writing, Collider gave some insight into what Gilroy will be doing when the season begins filming. The "Andor" creator will oversee the first shot of season 2 in London before leaving and returning to the United States for the Thanksgiving holiday. Even though he won't be sticking around for long, he'll have the likes of Ariel Kleiman,...
While their full interview has not been published as of this writing, Collider gave some insight into what Gilroy will be doing when the season begins filming. The "Andor" creator will oversee the first shot of season 2 in London before leaving and returning to the United States for the Thanksgiving holiday. Even though he won't be sticking around for long, he'll have the likes of Ariel Kleiman,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Erin Brady
- Slash Film
Tony Gilroy‘s Andor is one of the most refreshing entries in the Star Wars universe in decades, and fans are frothing at the mouth to know when filming for a second season will get underway. Thankfully, Collider‘s Steve Weintraub has the scoop, making this chill Autumn Friday afternoon a bit sweeter. According to Gilroy, filming for Andor Season 2 starts November 21, the Monday before Thanksgiving.
In addition to revealing the targeted production date for Andor Season 2, Gilroy confirmed Ariel Kleiman, Janus Metz, and Alonso Ruizpalacios as directors for the new season. Are you familiar with the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Gilroy is not messing with the original recipe for Andor and is happy to report that his brother, Dan Gilroy, and Beau Willmon, will return to write the upcoming season. Joining the writing team is Tom Bissell, who Gilroy says is a “really cool and really,...
In addition to revealing the targeted production date for Andor Season 2, Gilroy confirmed Ariel Kleiman, Janus Metz, and Alonso Ruizpalacios as directors for the new season. Are you familiar with the phrase, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?” Gilroy is not messing with the original recipe for Andor and is happy to report that his brother, Dan Gilroy, and Beau Willmon, will return to write the upcoming season. Joining the writing team is Tom Bissell, who Gilroy says is a “really cool and really,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
In the span of its first handful of episodes, "Andor" has brought a completely new and much-needed creative revitalization to the "Star Wars" franchise. Much of this has to do with the fact that creator Tony Gilroy ("Michael Clayton," the "Bourne" trilogy) put aside any questions of studio interference -- like the kind that plagued the production of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" -- and simply told the boldly visionary story he set out to tell. But part of that success also came from the clever construction of the first season as a whole.
Split up into a number of mini-arcs, "Andor" has generally featured the same pairing of writer and director attached to three or four blocks of episodes at a time. Director Toby Haynes and Gilroy teamed up for the first few episodes, Susanna White and Dan Gilroy took over for the next three, and Haynes and...
Split up into a number of mini-arcs, "Andor" has generally featured the same pairing of writer and director attached to three or four blocks of episodes at a time. Director Toby Haynes and Gilroy teamed up for the first few episodes, Susanna White and Dan Gilroy took over for the next three, and Haynes and...
- 11/3/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
Spoiler Alert: The follow story contains details from the Season 1 finale of Peacock’s The Resort.
In today’s Season 1 finale of Peacock’s The Resort, a core relationship was mended, as long-separated family members were reunited and major mysteries resolved.
Operating on multiple timelines, as was the case with past installments, the episode opens in flashback on teenagers Sam (Skyler Gisondo) and Violet (Nina Bloomgarden), who make their way down into the caverns of the enigmatic Pasaje as the hurricane at the center of the story hits, after falling asleep in the jungle. Inside the caves, they find waters that swiftly rise and trap them, with the pair for a moment seeming to have met their end.
Our present-day timeline finds Emma (Cristin Milioti) and Noah (William Jackson Harper) venturing into the caves alongside Baltasar Frías (Luis Gerardo Méndez) and Murray (Nick Offerman), with the pairs ultimately finding two...
In today’s Season 1 finale of Peacock’s The Resort, a core relationship was mended, as long-separated family members were reunited and major mysteries resolved.
Operating on multiple timelines, as was the case with past installments, the episode opens in flashback on teenagers Sam (Skyler Gisondo) and Violet (Nina Bloomgarden), who make their way down into the caverns of the enigmatic Pasaje as the hurricane at the center of the story hits, after falling asleep in the jungle. Inside the caves, they find waters that swiftly rise and trap them, with the pair for a moment seeming to have met their end.
Our present-day timeline finds Emma (Cristin Milioti) and Noah (William Jackson Harper) venturing into the caves alongside Baltasar Frías (Luis Gerardo Méndez) and Murray (Nick Offerman), with the pairs ultimately finding two...
- 9/1/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
To say that “The Resort” has more to offer than it seems is saying something, considering just how much it already has at first glance. Created by “Palm Springs” writer Andy Siara, and with a stacked cast led by the always killer Caitlin Milioti and William Jackson Harper, the series unpacks a mystery that only gets wilder, deeper, and more disorienting with each passing episode. One of the year’s most intriguing TV surprises, “The Resort” will deserve a bigger audience than it’ll likely get on Peacock.
In the beginning, Siara and Allison Miller’s “The Resort” presents itself as a relatively straightforward story, albeit one unfolding in two parallel timelines. In 2007, Violet (Nina Bloomgarden) and Sam (Skyler Gisondo) meet at a resort in Mexico before disappearing into thin air the night before a catastrophic hurricane. In 2022, Emma (Milioti) and her husband Noah (Harper) stumble upon the first clue...
In the beginning, Siara and Allison Miller’s “The Resort” presents itself as a relatively straightforward story, albeit one unfolding in two parallel timelines. In 2007, Violet (Nina Bloomgarden) and Sam (Skyler Gisondo) meet at a resort in Mexico before disappearing into thin air the night before a catastrophic hurricane. In 2022, Emma (Milioti) and her husband Noah (Harper) stumble upon the first clue...
- 7/28/2022
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not watched “Flight of the Bumblebee,” the eighth episode of “Yellowjackets.”
Melanie Lynskey has been one of the most sought-after and versatile television and film actors for years, from a scene-stealing supporting role on sitcom “Two and a Half Men” to a leading lady on “Togetherness.” She’s also been part of ensembles such as “Castle Rock,” “Mrs. America” and, most recently, Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.” Lynskey recently picked up a drama actress Critics Choice Awards nom for the latter, in which she portrays the adult version of Shauna, a former teen athlete and plane crash survivor.
In the eighth episode of “Yellowjackets,” titled “Flight of the Bumblebee,” Shauna’s world starts to crash around her as her daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins) points out her young boyfriend Adam (Peter Gadiot) is probably not who he says he is, which sets her down the path of finally Googling him,...
Melanie Lynskey has been one of the most sought-after and versatile television and film actors for years, from a scene-stealing supporting role on sitcom “Two and a Half Men” to a leading lady on “Togetherness.” She’s also been part of ensembles such as “Castle Rock,” “Mrs. America” and, most recently, Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.” Lynskey recently picked up a drama actress Critics Choice Awards nom for the latter, in which she portrays the adult version of Shauna, a former teen athlete and plane crash survivor.
In the eighth episode of “Yellowjackets,” titled “Flight of the Bumblebee,” Shauna’s world starts to crash around her as her daughter Callie (Sarah Desjardins) points out her young boyfriend Adam (Peter Gadiot) is probably not who he says he is, which sets her down the path of finally Googling him,...
- 1/3/2022
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
Top row (l-r) Polly Staniford, Sarah Shaw, Tania Chambers, Clayton Jacobson; middle: Jason Byrne, Rikki Lea Bestall, Dena Curtis, Liz Watts, Vincent Sheehan, Anna Vincent; bottom: Steve Jaggi, Scott Corfield, Kristian Moliere.
Polly Staniford, Sarah Shaw, Tania Chambers, Kristian Moliere, Liz Watts and Vincent Sheehan are among a delegation of 13 film and television producers who will travel to Los Angeles to meet with more than 30 development companies and streaming services next month.
The mission is led by Ausfilm as part of its annual Partner with Australia producer connection program. The goal is to provide strategic opportunities for Australian producers with commercially viable feature and TV projects that hold international appeal.
The initiative also supports Ausfilm’s corporate membership of screen services businesses by connecting these companies to Us film and television executives and Australian producers. The program runs from April 14-17.
Supported by Create Nsw, Film Victoria, Screen Queensland, the...
Polly Staniford, Sarah Shaw, Tania Chambers, Kristian Moliere, Liz Watts and Vincent Sheehan are among a delegation of 13 film and television producers who will travel to Los Angeles to meet with more than 30 development companies and streaming services next month.
The mission is led by Ausfilm as part of its annual Partner with Australia producer connection program. The goal is to provide strategic opportunities for Australian producers with commercially viable feature and TV projects that hold international appeal.
The initiative also supports Ausfilm’s corporate membership of screen services businesses by connecting these companies to Us film and television executives and Australian producers. The program runs from April 14-17.
Supported by Create Nsw, Film Victoria, Screen Queensland, the...
- 3/14/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Canneseries, the new TV festival set to launch in April during the Mip TV market, will be open for submissions starting next month.
Organizers revealed plans and a timetable for the festival during a press conference Monday in Cannes. They also announced that Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (“Borgen”) would serve as patron for the inaugural Canneseries event.
“It’s an exciting moment for us,” said artistic director Albin Lewi, who unveiled the setup for Canneseries along side president Fleur Pellerin and managing director Benoît Louvet. ” It was just ideas six months ago. Now we are real and really ambitious.”
Canneseries will run from April 4 to 11 next year in the city of Cannes, with the official competition set to take place between April 7 and 11 at the Auditorium Lumiére in the Palais des Festivals.
Read More:Cannes Tackles Television: Why a Global TV Festival Could Be a Gamechanger
The competition will present 10 world premiere series,...
Organizers revealed plans and a timetable for the festival during a press conference Monday in Cannes. They also announced that Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen (“Borgen”) would serve as patron for the inaugural Canneseries event.
“It’s an exciting moment for us,” said artistic director Albin Lewi, who unveiled the setup for Canneseries along side president Fleur Pellerin and managing director Benoît Louvet. ” It was just ideas six months ago. Now we are real and really ambitious.”
Canneseries will run from April 4 to 11 next year in the city of Cannes, with the official competition set to take place between April 7 and 11 at the Auditorium Lumiére in the Palais des Festivals.
Read More:Cannes Tackles Television: Why a Global TV Festival Could Be a Gamechanger
The competition will present 10 world premiere series,...
- 10/16/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
While the fall season has changed a great deal in the streaming age, the months of September through December do feature a flood of both new and returning series across every platform.
Below is our guide to fall premiere dates, which will be updated with reviews and more information as the season progresses. Happy fall TV!
Tuesday, September 5
“American Horror Story: Cult” (FX, 10 p.m.). From our review:
It’s not hard to see how Ryan Murphy arrived at his premise for “Ahs” Season 7. To say that many Americans have been living out their own personal horror story isn’t an overstatement — not with border closings, hate speech, and potential treason all enabled by the White House — but the new season manages to undermine the left’s legitimate fears and amplify the right’s monstrous traits all in one frenzied mess of an allegory.
Wednesday, September 6
“You’re the Worst” Season 4 (Fxx,...
Below is our guide to fall premiere dates, which will be updated with reviews and more information as the season progresses. Happy fall TV!
Tuesday, September 5
“American Horror Story: Cult” (FX, 10 p.m.). From our review:
It’s not hard to see how Ryan Murphy arrived at his premise for “Ahs” Season 7. To say that many Americans have been living out their own personal horror story isn’t an overstatement — not with border closings, hate speech, and potential treason all enabled by the White House — but the new season manages to undermine the left’s legitimate fears and amplify the right’s monstrous traits all in one frenzied mess of an allegory.
Wednesday, September 6
“You’re the Worst” Season 4 (Fxx,...
- 9/5/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
The list of the best scores of the year already includes “A Ghost Story,” “War of the Planet of the Apes,” and “Dunkirk,” and as of this weekend we can officially add “Good Time” to the roster. The Safdie Brothers’ wild New York City drama features original music from Oneohtrix Point Never, and it’s so effective in building the movie’s sense of unpredictable danger that even listening to it without the film is an anxiety-inducing experience.
Read More:Why the Safdie Brothers Decided to Put Robert Pattinson in Their Gritty World of New York Amateurs
“Good Time” stars Robert Pattinson as Constantine “Connie” Nikas, a small town criminal who embarks on a dangerous journey to get his brother out of jail after a bank robbery goes wrong. The supporting cast includes Benny Safdie, Barkhad Abdi and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The movie premiered to acclaim at Cannes, where IndieWire called...
Read More:Why the Safdie Brothers Decided to Put Robert Pattinson in Their Gritty World of New York Amateurs
“Good Time” stars Robert Pattinson as Constantine “Connie” Nikas, a small town criminal who embarks on a dangerous journey to get his brother out of jail after a bank robbery goes wrong. The supporting cast includes Benny Safdie, Barkhad Abdi and Jennifer Jason Leigh. The movie premiered to acclaim at Cannes, where IndieWire called...
- 8/11/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Louisa Mellor Aug 11, 2017
Top Of The Lake series 2 continues to be as satisfyingly odd and unpredictable as ever. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
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2.3 Surrogate
Sex and violence are never far away from each other in Top Of The Lake: China Girl. That’s hardly surprising for a murder mystery set in the world of the sex trade, but the two aren’t only connected by Cinnamon’s story.
Episode three opens with a monologue from Tony, who confesses to the accidental mid-sex murder by strangulation of a woman he’s picked up from a brothel. It’s fictitious, probably. Or if it isn’t, the story he tells isn’t about our China Girl. Then there are the sex noises Robin hears from Miranda’s apartment, at first indistinguishable from shrieks of pain. Even Miranda’s romantic hailstone story took place...
Top Of The Lake series 2 continues to be as satisfyingly odd and unpredictable as ever. Spoilers ahead...
This review contains spoilers.
See related Mission: Impossible 6 casting latest
2.3 Surrogate
Sex and violence are never far away from each other in Top Of The Lake: China Girl. That’s hardly surprising for a murder mystery set in the world of the sex trade, but the two aren’t only connected by Cinnamon’s story.
Episode three opens with a monologue from Tony, who confesses to the accidental mid-sex murder by strangulation of a woman he’s picked up from a brothel. It’s fictitious, probably. Or if it isn’t, the story he tells isn’t about our China Girl. Then there are the sex noises Robin hears from Miranda’s apartment, at first indistinguishable from shrieks of pain. Even Miranda’s romantic hailstone story took place...
- 8/10/2017
- Den of Geek
Good Time, the new film from the Safdie Brothers, may not have taken home the Palme d’Or at the recent Cannes Film Festival, but it did win the Soundtrack Award for its score from Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never.
The crime thriller, which stars Robert Pattinson, was described in our review as a “21st-century fast-food hybrid that mixes trash television and drug culture with Day-Glo-splattered night-time cinematography and throbbing synthesizers, thanks to a standout score.”
The award winning soundtrack will be released August 11 on Warp (pre-order here) and includes the closing track “The Pure and the Damned”, featuring a guest vocal and lyrics from Iggy Pop. On working with the Safdie Brothers, Lopatin tells Fact that he and the filmmakers “share an affection and reverence for bruised and battered stuff, and I think we both feel this urge to enshrine the history as it is now, not as it was then.
The crime thriller, which stars Robert Pattinson, was described in our review as a “21st-century fast-food hybrid that mixes trash television and drug culture with Day-Glo-splattered night-time cinematography and throbbing synthesizers, thanks to a standout score.”
The award winning soundtrack will be released August 11 on Warp (pre-order here) and includes the closing track “The Pure and the Damned”, featuring a guest vocal and lyrics from Iggy Pop. On working with the Safdie Brothers, Lopatin tells Fact that he and the filmmakers “share an affection and reverence for bruised and battered stuff, and I think we both feel this urge to enshrine the history as it is now, not as it was then.
- 6/12/2017
- by Chris Evangelista
- The Film Stage
Foxtel MD customer and retail Mark Buckman at the Foxtel Now launch. (Photo: Ben Symons)
Foxtel has rebranded itself and relaunched and re-named its Internet-delivered streaming service in a bold move to combat competition from Netflix.s Australian service and Stan.
Foxtel Now replaces Foxtel Play, a repositioning hailed by Foxtel CEO Peter Tonagh as the biggest strategic shift in the Australian pay-tv company.s 22 year history.
A massive media campaign will start on Sunday, targeting the 2 million-plus Australians who subscribe to Netflix and/or Stan and who Foxtel believes are prepared to pay $10-$50 per month for pay channels and an on-demand library.
The theme is .Foxtel for Everyone,. which Tonagh said reflects the transformation of Foxtel from being the pay-tv provider for the premium segment to the premium entertainment provider for all Australians.
.We are staking out a space where we have not been before,. he told a...
Foxtel has rebranded itself and relaunched and re-named its Internet-delivered streaming service in a bold move to combat competition from Netflix.s Australian service and Stan.
Foxtel Now replaces Foxtel Play, a repositioning hailed by Foxtel CEO Peter Tonagh as the biggest strategic shift in the Australian pay-tv company.s 22 year history.
A massive media campaign will start on Sunday, targeting the 2 million-plus Australians who subscribe to Netflix and/or Stan and who Foxtel believes are prepared to pay $10-$50 per month for pay channels and an on-demand library.
The theme is .Foxtel for Everyone,. which Tonagh said reflects the transformation of Foxtel from being the pay-tv provider for the premium segment to the premium entertainment provider for all Australians.
.We are staking out a space where we have not been before,. he told a...
- 6/6/2017
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Four years after lauded New Zealand noir mini-series “Top of the Lake,” Jane Campion, who was cheered at the Cannes 70th anniversary celebration as the only woman director to win the Palme d’Or (1994 Oscar-winner “The Piano”), is back in the festival with “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” She and returning co-writer Gerard Lee debuted all six SundanceTV episodes on May 23rd to raves.
Read More: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Review: The Highlight of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Might Be a TV Show
Set five years later, “China Girl” follows Robin Griffin, Elisabeth Moss’s troubled homicide detective (she screams in her sleep), back to her old Sydney police precinct. She’s tough and no-nonsense, eager to prove her expertise against a sea of sexist cops, and saddled with a lanky partner (the hilariously endearing “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie), who is as sweet...
Read More: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Review: The Highlight of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Might Be a TV Show
Set five years later, “China Girl” follows Robin Griffin, Elisabeth Moss’s troubled homicide detective (she screams in her sleep), back to her old Sydney police precinct. She’s tough and no-nonsense, eager to prove her expertise against a sea of sexist cops, and saddled with a lanky partner (the hilariously endearing “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie), who is as sweet...
- 5/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Four years after lauded New Zealand noir mini-series “Top of the Lake,” Jane Campion, who was cheered at the Cannes 70th anniversary celebration as the only woman director to win the Palme d’Or (1994 Oscar-winner “The Piano”), is back in the festival with “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” She and returning co-writer Gerard Lee debuted all six SundanceTV episodes on May 23rd to raves.
Read More: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Review: The Highlight of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Might Be a TV Show
Set five years later, “China Girl” follows Robin Griffin, Elisabeth Moss’s troubled homicide detective (she screams in her sleep), back to her old Sydney police precinct. She’s tough and no-nonsense, eager to prove her expertise against a sea of sexist cops, and saddled with a lanky partner (the hilariously endearing “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie), who is as sweet...
Read More: ‘Top of the Lake: China Girl’ Review: The Highlight of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Might Be a TV Show
Set five years later, “China Girl” follows Robin Griffin, Elisabeth Moss’s troubled homicide detective (she screams in her sleep), back to her old Sydney police precinct. She’s tough and no-nonsense, eager to prove her expertise against a sea of sexist cops, and saddled with a lanky partner (the hilariously endearing “Game of Thrones” star Gwendoline Christie), who is as sweet...
- 5/25/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Jane Campion’s “Top of the Lake: China Girl” is — among a seemingly infinite array of other things — a story about second chances. And while that theme is beautifully personified by any number of different characters during this six-hour miniseries, there’s a certain irony to the fact that this epic detective drama is built upon a foundation of redemption and regret. After all, Campion got it right the first time.
Premiering at Sundance in 2013 and airing on SundanceTV later that year, “Top of the Lake” was notable for being one of the first examples of a major filmmaker realizing the full potential of the “peak TV” era. It was also notable for being a staggering piece of long-form fiction, the Palme d’Or-winning director of “The Piano” returning to her native land of New Zealand for a violently beautiful mystery show that flipped the genre on its ass with savage grace.
Premiering at Sundance in 2013 and airing on SundanceTV later that year, “Top of the Lake” was notable for being one of the first examples of a major filmmaker realizing the full potential of the “peak TV” era. It was also notable for being a staggering piece of long-form fiction, the Palme d’Or-winning director of “The Piano” returning to her native land of New Zealand for a violently beautiful mystery show that flipped the genre on its ass with savage grace.
- 5/25/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Remember when you were a little girl and just wanted to play dress-up? Well, Nicole Kidman is living out every fashionista’s fantasy by rocking so many different frocks at Cannes and becoming the envy of all of us.
The Australian stunner is promoting four films at the 70th annual French film festival, and naturally, with multiple screenings comes multiple red carpet looks.
Watch: Nicole Kidman on How She Knew 'Big Little Lies' Was a Huge Hit
Kicking things off in a shimmering silver Rodarte gown bordered with baby pink ruffles, the 49-year-old actress added Harry Winston jewels, an Omega watch, Christian Louboutin heels and a Jimmy Choo bag for Sunday’s premiere of How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The look may have been a nod to her character in the sci-fi punk comedy, a “fairy punkmother” named Boadicea.
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On Monday, the Oscar winner donned a gorgeous peacock-inspired Dior Haute Couture...
The Australian stunner is promoting four films at the 70th annual French film festival, and naturally, with multiple screenings comes multiple red carpet looks.
Watch: Nicole Kidman on How She Knew 'Big Little Lies' Was a Huge Hit
Kicking things off in a shimmering silver Rodarte gown bordered with baby pink ruffles, the 49-year-old actress added Harry Winston jewels, an Omega watch, Christian Louboutin heels and a Jimmy Choo bag for Sunday’s premiere of How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The look may have been a nod to her character in the sci-fi punk comedy, a “fairy punkmother” named Boadicea.
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On Monday, the Oscar winner donned a gorgeous peacock-inspired Dior Haute Couture...
- 5/23/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
After a long legacy of resistance, this year the Cannes Film Festival is embracing the revolution that is modern television with a few special presentations. This includes the full second season of “Top of the Lake,” directed by Jane Campion (“The Piano”) and Ariel Kleiman.
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
On May 23, Cannes attendees will be able to screen all six episodes of the season subtitled “China Girl,” starting at 1 p.m. France time following an introduction by Campion. It’s set to end at around 8 p.m. that evening.
This, frankly, sounds like a bad way to spend a day of your life.
It’s not because “China Girl” will be bad — indeed, it will likely be as moving, intimate and intense as the first season, which ran in 2013 on the Sundance Channel (and also screened in its...
Read More: The 2017 IndieWire Cannes Bible: Every Review, Interview and News Item Posted During the Festival
On May 23, Cannes attendees will be able to screen all six episodes of the season subtitled “China Girl,” starting at 1 p.m. France time following an introduction by Campion. It’s set to end at around 8 p.m. that evening.
This, frankly, sounds like a bad way to spend a day of your life.
It’s not because “China Girl” will be bad — indeed, it will likely be as moving, intimate and intense as the first season, which ran in 2013 on the Sundance Channel (and also screened in its...
- 5/22/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
Author: Zehra Phelan
It’s been a long old wait for fans of the BBC Two mini series, Top of The Lake. Today fans can rejoice with the release of a new trailer for the second installment, Top of the Lake: China Girl, also from the series creator Jane Champion. It reveals a surprising look at an aged Nicole Kidman, and much more.
Related: Top of the Lake Review
The first series followed Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss – who reprises her role in the second series), as she dealt with the investigation of the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl in New Zealand. Series two will be set four years after the events of series one and will be set in Sydney, as Robin investigates the death of an unidentified Asian girl found at Bondi Beach.
In the trailer, Robin is back in a creepy storyline, which is aided...
It’s been a long old wait for fans of the BBC Two mini series, Top of The Lake. Today fans can rejoice with the release of a new trailer for the second installment, Top of the Lake: China Girl, also from the series creator Jane Champion. It reveals a surprising look at an aged Nicole Kidman, and much more.
Related: Top of the Lake Review
The first series followed Detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss – who reprises her role in the second series), as she dealt with the investigation of the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl in New Zealand. Series two will be set four years after the events of series one and will be set in Sydney, as Robin investigates the death of an unidentified Asian girl found at Bondi Beach.
In the trailer, Robin is back in a creepy storyline, which is aided...
- 5/12/2017
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The Cannes Film Festival generates more attention and excitement than any other film festival in the world, but each year is an unpredictable journey. The Official Selection, alongside the sidebars of Directors Fortnight and Critics Week, offer up a tightly-curated into a range of international cinema from both familiar sources and surprising newcomers. This year’s edition is a reliable combination of top-tier directors whose work will be shown at Cannes until the end of time, notable filmmakers who usually deliver something worthwhile, and unproven quantities with a lot of potential.
Read More: 17 Shocks and Surprises from the 2017 Cannes Lineup, From ‘Twin Peaks’ to Netflix and Vr
In order to work through all of these different possibilities, we’ve broken down our list of anticipated Cannes titles into three categories: A-list auteurs, Discoveries and Safe Bets. Every day of Cannes will bring new updates on the latest films, some of...
Read More: 17 Shocks and Surprises from the 2017 Cannes Lineup, From ‘Twin Peaks’ to Netflix and Vr
In order to work through all of these different possibilities, we’ve broken down our list of anticipated Cannes titles into three categories: A-list auteurs, Discoveries and Safe Bets. Every day of Cannes will bring new updates on the latest films, some of...
- 5/10/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
Sophia Coppola, Yorgos Lanthimos, Noah Baumbach, ‘Twin Peaks,’ and more…2017 Official Poster © Bronx (Paris). Photo: Claudia Cardinale © Archivio Cameraphoto Epoche/Getty Images
The official lineup for the 70th Cannes Film Festival, which will run from May 18–28, was announced April 13. While a few more screenings will undoubtably be added as we creep nearer to the festival, the selections announced feature a lot worth getting excited over — including, for the first time, two television shows (Twin Peaks and Top of the Lake) and a virtual reality film (Carne y Arena). Also, considering that The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Beguiled are both in the main competition, there is, assuming equal probability, an 11.1% chance that a film starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell will take home the top prize. Considering
This year, the festival jury will be headed by acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, with French actress Sandrine Kiberlain presiding over the Camera d’Or jury and Romanian...
The official lineup for the 70th Cannes Film Festival, which will run from May 18–28, was announced April 13. While a few more screenings will undoubtably be added as we creep nearer to the festival, the selections announced feature a lot worth getting excited over — including, for the first time, two television shows (Twin Peaks and Top of the Lake) and a virtual reality film (Carne y Arena). Also, considering that The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Beguiled are both in the main competition, there is, assuming equal probability, an 11.1% chance that a film starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell will take home the top prize. Considering
This year, the festival jury will be headed by acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodovar, with French actress Sandrine Kiberlain presiding over the Camera d’Or jury and Romanian...
- 4/15/2017
- by Ciara Wardlow
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The 2017 Cannes official selection is a mix of brainy competition auteurs, red-carpet star power, and the rarest breed — a handful of players who could return to North America as Oscar contenders.
Nicole Kidman will be stuffing her trunks with evening gowns, as she will need to walk the Palais steps at least four times: twice with Colin Farrell, for Cannes favorite Sofia Coppola‘s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell‘s midnighter “How to Talk with Girls at Parties” (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion‘s returning Sundance Channel series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” How the three films play in Cannes will determine if the Oscar perennial returns for another go-round.
Isabelle Huppert won the Cesar and was close — we think — to winning the Oscar for “Elle.
Nicole Kidman will be stuffing her trunks with evening gowns, as she will need to walk the Palais steps at least four times: twice with Colin Farrell, for Cannes favorite Sofia Coppola‘s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell‘s midnighter “How to Talk with Girls at Parties” (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion‘s returning Sundance Channel series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” How the three films play in Cannes will determine if the Oscar perennial returns for another go-round.
Isabelle Huppert won the Cesar and was close — we think — to winning the Oscar for “Elle.
- 4/13/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The 2017 Cannes official selection is a mix of brainy competition auteurs, red-carpet star power, and the rarest breed — a handful of players who could return to North America as Oscar contenders.
Nicole Kidman will be stuffing her trunks with evening gowns, as she will need to walk the Palais steps at least four times: twice with Colin Farrell, for Cannes favorite Sofia Coppola‘s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell‘s midnighter “How to Talk with Girls at Parties” (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion‘s returning Sundance Channel series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl.”
Isabelle Huppert won the Cesar and was close — we think — to winning the Oscar for “Elle.” She’s back in two movies, “Happy End” (Sony Pictures Classics) by Michael Haneke, rejoining “Amour” co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant,...
Nicole Kidman will be stuffing her trunks with evening gowns, as she will need to walk the Palais steps at least four times: twice with Colin Farrell, for Cannes favorite Sofia Coppola‘s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell‘s midnighter “How to Talk with Girls at Parties” (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion‘s returning Sundance Channel series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl.”
Isabelle Huppert won the Cesar and was close — we think — to winning the Oscar for “Elle.” She’s back in two movies, “Happy End” (Sony Pictures Classics) by Michael Haneke, rejoining “Amour” co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
As it faces competition from upcoming rival events, the Cannes Film Festival has finally broken its “no TV series” rule.
Cannes has included two shows — Showtime’s “Twin Peaks” revival and SundanceTV/BBC’s “Top of the Lake: China Girl” — as special screenings during this year’s festival, marking the first time episodic television has been included. (TV has had a limited presence in the past via longform projects, like HBO’s “Beyond the Candelabra.”)
For Cannes, it’s a measured baby step into the world of episodic television. Both titles are already well established: “Twin Peaks,” of course, is a title that has existed for more than 25 years, via a cult classic TV show and spinoff film. “Top of the Lake: China Girl” is the second season of that series, which premiered in 2013.
Both also come from auteurs best known as filmmakers (“Twin Peaks” director David Lynch...
Cannes has included two shows — Showtime’s “Twin Peaks” revival and SundanceTV/BBC’s “Top of the Lake: China Girl” — as special screenings during this year’s festival, marking the first time episodic television has been included. (TV has had a limited presence in the past via longform projects, like HBO’s “Beyond the Candelabra.”)
For Cannes, it’s a measured baby step into the world of episodic television. Both titles are already well established: “Twin Peaks,” of course, is a title that has existed for more than 25 years, via a cult classic TV show and spinoff film. “Top of the Lake: China Girl” is the second season of that series, which premiered in 2013.
Both also come from auteurs best known as filmmakers (“Twin Peaks” director David Lynch...
- 4/13/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
The line-up for our most-anticipated cinema-related event of the year is here. With a jury headed up by Pedro Almodóvar, who came to the festival last year with Julieta, the slate for the 70th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled live. Kicking off with Arnaud Desplechin‘s Marion Cotillard-led Ismael’s Ghosts, there’s new films from Lynne Ramsay, Yorgos Lanthimos, Todd Haynes, Michael Haneke, Sofia Coppola, Hong Sang-soo (x 2!), Bong Joon-ho, Noah Baumbach, the Safdies, the final work from Abbas Kiarostami, and much more. Check out the full line-up below.
Competition
Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Good Time – Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay
A Gentle Creature – Sergei Loznitsa
Jupiter’s Moon – Kornél Mundruczó
L’Amant Double – François Ozon
The Killing of a Sacred Deer – Yorgos Lanthimos
Radiance – Naomi Kawase
The Day After – Hong Sang-soo
Le Redoutable – Michel Hazanavicius
Wonderstruck – Todd Haynes
Rodin – Jacques Doillon...
Competition
Loveless – Andrey Zvyagintsev
Good Time – Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
You Were Never Really Here – Lynne Ramsay
A Gentle Creature – Sergei Loznitsa
Jupiter’s Moon – Kornél Mundruczó
L’Amant Double – François Ozon
The Killing of a Sacred Deer – Yorgos Lanthimos
Radiance – Naomi Kawase
The Day After – Hong Sang-soo
Le Redoutable – Michel Hazanavicius
Wonderstruck – Todd Haynes
Rodin – Jacques Doillon...
- 4/13/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The Cannes Film Festival has announced its lineup for the 70th edition, following its tradition of unveiling every competition film (along with Un Certain Regard titles and other assorted offerings) in a morning press conference taking place at 5 a.m. Est.
“Since every day we have another move from Donald Trump, I hope North Korea and Syria won’t cast a shadow on the 70th edition,” said journalist Pierre Lescure before the announcement.
See More17 Shocks and Surprises from the 2017 Cannes Lineup, From ‘Twin Peaks’ to Netflix and Vr
This year’s festival features 49 films from 29 countries, including nine feature debuts and 12 women directors.
Check out the full lineup below (refresh for latest updates):
Opening Night Film
“Ismael’s Ghost” directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Competition
“The Day After” directed by Hong Sangsoo
“Loveless” directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
“Good Time” directed by Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
“You Were Never Really Here...
“Since every day we have another move from Donald Trump, I hope North Korea and Syria won’t cast a shadow on the 70th edition,” said journalist Pierre Lescure before the announcement.
See More17 Shocks and Surprises from the 2017 Cannes Lineup, From ‘Twin Peaks’ to Netflix and Vr
This year’s festival features 49 films from 29 countries, including nine feature debuts and 12 women directors.
Check out the full lineup below (refresh for latest updates):
Opening Night Film
“Ismael’s Ghost” directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Competition
“The Day After” directed by Hong Sangsoo
“Loveless” directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev
“Good Time” directed by Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie
“You Were Never Really Here...
- 4/13/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
“Top of the Lake” first premiered at Sundance in 2013 to great acclaim, with Elisabeth Moss going on to win a Golden Globe for her nuanced performance and Jane Campion once again earning raves for her direction. Nicole Kidman will feature prominently the next installment in the series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl,” the first image of which was just released by SundanceTV.
Read More: ‘Top of the Lake’ Season 2 First Image: Elisabeth Moss is Back to Business as Detective Robin
Moss returns as Detective Robin Griffin, who returns to Sydney from New Zealand shortly before the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach. Robin, top-tier gumshoe that she is, realizes that “China Girl” didn’t die alone; one presumes that things get thornier and stranger from there. Kidman, meanwhile, is to co-star as an Australian mother named Julia whose own story intersects with Robin’s.
Read More: ‘Top of the Lake’ Season 2 First Image: Elisabeth Moss is Back to Business as Detective Robin
Moss returns as Detective Robin Griffin, who returns to Sydney from New Zealand shortly before the body of an Asian girl washes up on Bondi Beach. Robin, top-tier gumshoe that she is, realizes that “China Girl” didn’t die alone; one presumes that things get thornier and stranger from there. Kidman, meanwhile, is to co-star as an Australian mother named Julia whose own story intersects with Robin’s.
- 12/13/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
In 2014 Elisabeth Moss won her first Golden Globe for her portrayal of Detective Robin in the first season of “Top of the Lake.” Now the actress is reprising her award-winning role in the second season, which takes place four years after the events of the first. SundanceTV released the first image (above) which features Moss getting back to business.
The first season of Jane Campion’s critically acclaimed miniseries followed Sydney-based police detective Robin (Moss) returning to her hometown in New Zealand to investigate the disappearance of a local 12-year-old girl. Season 2 will take place in Sydney and center around the death of an unidentified girl whose body washes up on to Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The new season also includes the addition of Nicole Kidman and “Game of Thrones” actress Gwendoline Christie.
Read More: ‘The Bleeder’ Clip: Watch First Footage of Elisabeth Moss and Liev Schreiber’s Dramatic Boxing...
The first season of Jane Campion’s critically acclaimed miniseries followed Sydney-based police detective Robin (Moss) returning to her hometown in New Zealand to investigate the disappearance of a local 12-year-old girl. Season 2 will take place in Sydney and center around the death of an unidentified girl whose body washes up on to Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The new season also includes the addition of Nicole Kidman and “Game of Thrones” actress Gwendoline Christie.
Read More: ‘The Bleeder’ Clip: Watch First Footage of Elisabeth Moss and Liev Schreiber’s Dramatic Boxing...
- 10/5/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Trailer for Vca Film and Television's Digital Archive Project.
To celebrate its 50th anniversary this weekend, Victorian College of the Arts. Film and Television School is releasing a digital archive of never-before-seen student films from throughout its history. Australia.s oldest film school, which boasts a host of illustrious alumni such as Gillian Armstrong, Justin Kurzel, Emma Freeman and Richard Lowenstein, began at Swinburne Institute of Technology in 1966 and moved on to its present home at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 1992. To mark its 50th year, Vca Film and Television has begun releasing 50 unseen student films from over the past five decades. The school.s head Nicolette Freeman compiled the films and said they provided an insight into how Australian society, culture and filmmaking have changed over the years. The release forms part of an ongoing project to eventually make the school.s entire back catalogue publicly available. Freeman told If that given many of Vca.s students were relatively young, their films often depicted stories of childhood or adolescence.
However, over the last 20 or so years, she.s noted a particular increase in stories about first-generation migrant children. .Stories told from the children's point of view, or they're the stories that parents have told them from their home country or about their time in Australia before they started a family. .A really interesting example of that recently is Ariel Kleiman's graduation film, Deeper than Yesterday, that's set on a Russian submarine; a story inspired by stories his father told him about when he was in Russia,. Freeman said. . .Also, interestingly, stories about fractured families and single parent families are something that has developed more over the last ten to fifteen years.. Freeman said she also saw an interesting tendency for students to sometimes make .safer. films in their graduation year, as they think of it as their calling card to the industry. .We do as much as we can to keep that freshness and authenticity and energy going into the graduation year, but you.re also fighting the fact that, at that point, the students are investing more of their own money into the production; they think it.s their last chance,. she said. Despite the expectation that it would be older postgraduate students who'd make more self-assured, confident or adventurous work, Freeman said that wasn.t always the case. . .Sometimes it.s the undergraduate students, like Ariel Kleiman or Jonathan auf der Heide, who are more brazen. They don.t have baggage about proving themselves. They think the world.s their oyster and so they can sometimes be more confident in their audaciousness,. she said.
Vca Film and Television School celebrates its anniversary on June 19.
http://vca.unimelb.edu.au/engage/vca-film-and-television-50th-anniversary
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/film-and-television-golden-anniversary-party-registration-24058131519?aff=ftv50website...
To celebrate its 50th anniversary this weekend, Victorian College of the Arts. Film and Television School is releasing a digital archive of never-before-seen student films from throughout its history. Australia.s oldest film school, which boasts a host of illustrious alumni such as Gillian Armstrong, Justin Kurzel, Emma Freeman and Richard Lowenstein, began at Swinburne Institute of Technology in 1966 and moved on to its present home at Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne in 1992. To mark its 50th year, Vca Film and Television has begun releasing 50 unseen student films from over the past five decades. The school.s head Nicolette Freeman compiled the films and said they provided an insight into how Australian society, culture and filmmaking have changed over the years. The release forms part of an ongoing project to eventually make the school.s entire back catalogue publicly available. Freeman told If that given many of Vca.s students were relatively young, their films often depicted stories of childhood or adolescence.
However, over the last 20 or so years, she.s noted a particular increase in stories about first-generation migrant children. .Stories told from the children's point of view, or they're the stories that parents have told them from their home country or about their time in Australia before they started a family. .A really interesting example of that recently is Ariel Kleiman's graduation film, Deeper than Yesterday, that's set on a Russian submarine; a story inspired by stories his father told him about when he was in Russia,. Freeman said. . .Also, interestingly, stories about fractured families and single parent families are something that has developed more over the last ten to fifteen years.. Freeman said she also saw an interesting tendency for students to sometimes make .safer. films in their graduation year, as they think of it as their calling card to the industry. .We do as much as we can to keep that freshness and authenticity and energy going into the graduation year, but you.re also fighting the fact that, at that point, the students are investing more of their own money into the production; they think it.s their last chance,. she said. Despite the expectation that it would be older postgraduate students who'd make more self-assured, confident or adventurous work, Freeman said that wasn.t always the case. . .Sometimes it.s the undergraduate students, like Ariel Kleiman or Jonathan auf der Heide, who are more brazen. They don.t have baggage about proving themselves. They think the world.s their oyster and so they can sometimes be more confident in their audaciousness,. she said.
Vca Film and Television School celebrates its anniversary on June 19.
http://vca.unimelb.edu.au/engage/vca-film-and-television-50th-anniversary
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/film-and-television-golden-anniversary-party-registration-24058131519?aff=ftv50website...
- 6/15/2016
- by Harry Windsor and Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
It's now confirmed - after a year of talks, Nicole Kidman is now set to re-team with her "Portrait Of A Lady" director Jane Campion for the second season of the thriller series "Top Of The Lake" for The BBC, SundanceTV and Foxtel.
Created by Campion and Gerald Lee, the 2013 first season saw Elisabeth Moss playing Detective Robin Griffin who was investigating the disappearance of a pregnant twelve-year-old girl.
The second season, going by the moniker "Top Of The Lake: China Girl," picks up four years later with Griffin called in to look into the case of an unidentified body which washes up on Sydney's Bondi Beach.
Kidman has just arrived in Sydney to begin filming her scenes. Gwendoline Christie ("Game of Thrones") also reportedly has a major role in the production. Liv Hewson, David Dencik, Alice Englert and Ewen Leslie co-star.
The series will air on BBC Two in the UK and on SundanceTV and Hulu in the U.S. Campion is co-directing with Ariel Kleiman ("Partisan").
Source: Deadline...
Created by Campion and Gerald Lee, the 2013 first season saw Elisabeth Moss playing Detective Robin Griffin who was investigating the disappearance of a pregnant twelve-year-old girl.
The second season, going by the moniker "Top Of The Lake: China Girl," picks up four years later with Griffin called in to look into the case of an unidentified body which washes up on Sydney's Bondi Beach.
Kidman has just arrived in Sydney to begin filming her scenes. Gwendoline Christie ("Game of Thrones") also reportedly has a major role in the production. Liv Hewson, David Dencik, Alice Englert and Ewen Leslie co-star.
The series will air on BBC Two in the UK and on SundanceTV and Hulu in the U.S. Campion is co-directing with Ariel Kleiman ("Partisan").
Source: Deadline...
- 6/13/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Proof 20th anniversary screening and Q&A.
Growing Aacta's year-round member events program is a key pillar of the organisation's five-year plan, CEO Damian Trewhella said at the AFI-Aacta Agm on Tuesday night..
Guests who have participated in Aacta events over the last couple of years include Andrew Knight, Jeremy Sims, Jan Chapman, Tony Ayres, Joel Edgerton, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Penny Chapman, Ariel Kleiman, Megan Riakos and Ryan Griffen.
.Our member events are providing a platform for the public and the industry to come together to watch, discuss and share insights into great Australian productions and the creative process, and we.re pleased to have expanded our program to include television premieres on the big screen, including our upcoming screening of Foxtel.s Secret City", Trewhella said. .
Other upcoming events include next month.s Directing The Dressmaker Vivid Sydney event with Jocelyn Moorhouse in conversation with Gillian Armstrong and Margaret Pomeranz,...
Growing Aacta's year-round member events program is a key pillar of the organisation's five-year plan, CEO Damian Trewhella said at the AFI-Aacta Agm on Tuesday night..
Guests who have participated in Aacta events over the last couple of years include Andrew Knight, Jeremy Sims, Jan Chapman, Tony Ayres, Joel Edgerton, Richard Roxburgh, Deborah Mailman, Penny Chapman, Ariel Kleiman, Megan Riakos and Ryan Griffen.
.Our member events are providing a platform for the public and the industry to come together to watch, discuss and share insights into great Australian productions and the creative process, and we.re pleased to have expanded our program to include television premieres on the big screen, including our upcoming screening of Foxtel.s Secret City", Trewhella said. .
Other upcoming events include next month.s Directing The Dressmaker Vivid Sydney event with Jocelyn Moorhouse in conversation with Gillian Armstrong and Margaret Pomeranz,...
- 5/25/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Top of the Lake.
Shooting has begun in Sydney on the second season of Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, with Partisan's Ariel Kleiman stepping in as co-director in place of Lion's Garth Davis, who co-helmed season one.
The second series begins four years after the first, with Elisabeth Moss' Detective Robin Griffin now working in Sydney..
Joining Moss are Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Ewen Leslie (The Daughter), David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, We Are The Best!) and Campion's daughter, Alice Englert, now a director in her own right.
Gerard Lee, of Sweetie and Top of the Lake season one, has again written the scripts with Campion, while it's unclear if DoP Adam Arkapaw, hot off Justin Kurzel's Assasin's Creed, will also return.
.I.m so excited to be back in Australia working with Jane on exploring this wonderful character", Moss said.
Shooting has begun in Sydney on the second season of Jane Campion's Top of the Lake, with Partisan's Ariel Kleiman stepping in as co-director in place of Lion's Garth Davis, who co-helmed season one.
The second series begins four years after the first, with Elisabeth Moss' Detective Robin Griffin now working in Sydney..
Joining Moss are Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Ewen Leslie (The Daughter), David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, We Are The Best!) and Campion's daughter, Alice Englert, now a director in her own right.
Gerard Lee, of Sweetie and Top of the Lake season one, has again written the scripts with Campion, while it's unclear if DoP Adam Arkapaw, hot off Justin Kurzel's Assasin's Creed, will also return.
.I.m so excited to be back in Australia working with Jane on exploring this wonderful character", Moss said.
- 3/22/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
The debut season of the 2013 crime drama Top of the Lake was a meditative and often dark look into the disappearance of a pregnant 12-year-old girl. It's a gorgeous show, with stunningly beautiful cinematography of its New Zealand setting and some stellar performances from its lead actors. Thanks to EW, we now know that two of TV's best supporting actresses are uniting for the series' second season. Gwendoline Christie (who plays Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones and briefly appeared as the mostly-useless Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens) has signed on to play a major role opposite Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss, who did excellent work in the first season and is returning to reprise her role of detective Robin Griffin. David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures), and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter) are all on board for this go-around as well.
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- 3/22/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
It seems too good to be true that we're getting a second season of "Top Of The Lake," but it's indeed happening. Elisabeth Moss is back to reprise her role, Jane Campion is directing once again, but a new crew of actors and behind-the-camera talent are coming on board. Read More: Sundance Preview: Jane Campion's 'Top Of The Lake' Feels Like 'The Killing,' Only With Haunting, Lasting Sustain "Game Of Thrones" star Gwendoline Christine (aka Brienne of Tarth), David Dencik, Alice Englert and Ewen Leslie have joined the new season of the show. While details are being kept under wraps for now, last year it was reported that the story would follow Detective Robin Griffin investigating a case in Harbour City, Hong Kong, with the plot also skipping back to Sydney, Australia as well (it's possible the plot has changed since then). Meanwhile, Garth Davis. who co-directed the first season,...
- 3/22/2016
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Not only is Elisabeth Moss returning for a second season of "Top of the Lake" on SundanceTV and BBC, she's set to be joined by "Game of Thrones" and "Star Wars" actress Gwendoline Christie along with David Dencik and Alice Englert.
Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman will return to direct the new season of the crime mystery drama which Campion is co-writing with Gerard Lee. The new season will find Moss' character investigating a new murder four years after the events of the original which revolved around the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl.
Moss said in a statement: "I'm so excited to be back in Australia working with Jane on exploring this wonderful character. I can't wait for audiences to see where we take Robin's journey." Christie added: "Jane Campion has been a major creative influence throughout my life and I could not feel more privileged to be working on...
Jane Campion and Ariel Kleiman will return to direct the new season of the crime mystery drama which Campion is co-writing with Gerard Lee. The new season will find Moss' character investigating a new murder four years after the events of the original which revolved around the disappearance of a 12-year-old girl.
Moss said in a statement: "I'm so excited to be back in Australia working with Jane on exploring this wonderful character. I can't wait for audiences to see where we take Robin's journey." Christie added: "Jane Campion has been a major creative influence throughout my life and I could not feel more privileged to be working on...
- 3/22/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Game Of Thrones actress will star alongside the returning Elisabeth Moss, with filming now underway in Australia.
Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) has joined the cast of the second series of Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, which began filming today in Sydney, Australia.
She will star alongside Golden Globe-winning Elisabeth Moss in the returning drama mini-series, produced by See-Saw Films for BBC Two.
Additional cast joining the series include David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter).
Commencing four years on from the end of the events depicted in series one, the second series sees the body of an unidentified Asian girl wash up on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The case initially seems hopeless, until detective Robin Griffin (Moss) discovers that the girl did not die alone.
Campion will return to direct, again writing alongside Gerard Lee, and will be joined by co-director Ariel Kleiman (Partisan).
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Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) has joined the cast of the second series of Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, which began filming today in Sydney, Australia.
She will star alongside Golden Globe-winning Elisabeth Moss in the returning drama mini-series, produced by See-Saw Films for BBC Two.
Additional cast joining the series include David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter).
Commencing four years on from the end of the events depicted in series one, the second series sees the body of an unidentified Asian girl wash up on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The case initially seems hopeless, until detective Robin Griffin (Moss) discovers that the girl did not die alone.
Campion will return to direct, again writing alongside Gerard Lee, and will be joined by co-director Ariel Kleiman (Partisan).
Producers are [link...
- 3/22/2016
- ScreenDaily
Game Of Thrones actress will star alongside the returning Elisabeth Moss, with filming now underway in Australia.
Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) has joined the cast of the second series of Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, which began filming today in Sydney, Australia.
She will star alongside Golden Globe-winning Elisabeth Moss in the returning drama mini-series, produced by See-Saw Films for BBC Two.
Additional cast joining the series include David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter).
Commencing four years on from the end of the events depicted in series one, the second series sees the body of an unidentified Asian girl wash up on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The case initially seems hopeless, until detective Robin Griffin (Moss) discovers that the girl did not die alone.
Campion will return to direct, again writing alongside Gerard Lee, and will be joined by co-director Ariel Kleiman (Partisan).
Producers are [link...
Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) has joined the cast of the second series of Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, which began filming today in Sydney, Australia.
She will star alongside Golden Globe-winning Elisabeth Moss in the returning drama mini-series, produced by See-Saw Films for BBC Two.
Additional cast joining the series include David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter).
Commencing four years on from the end of the events depicted in series one, the second series sees the body of an unidentified Asian girl wash up on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The case initially seems hopeless, until detective Robin Griffin (Moss) discovers that the girl did not die alone.
Campion will return to direct, again writing alongside Gerard Lee, and will be joined by co-director Ariel Kleiman (Partisan).
Producers are [link...
- 3/22/2016
- ScreenDaily
Game Of Thrones actress will star alongside the returning Elisabeth Moss, with filming now underway in Australia.
Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) has joined the cast of the second series of Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, which began filming today in Sydney, Australia.
She will star alongside Golden Globe-winning Elisabeth Moss in the returning drama mini-series, produced by See-Saw Films for BBC Two.
Additional cast joining the series include David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter).
Commencing four years on from the end of the events depicted in series one, the second series sees the body of an unidentified Asian girl wash up on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The case initially seems hopeless, until detective Robin Griffin (Moss) discovers that the girl did not die alone.
Campion will return to direct, again writing alongside Gerard Lee, and will be joined by co-director Ariel Kleiman (Partisan).
Producers are [link...
Gwendoline Christie (Game Of Thrones) has joined the cast of the second series of Jane Campion’s Top Of The Lake, which began filming today in Sydney, Australia.
She will star alongside Golden Globe-winning Elisabeth Moss in the returning drama mini-series, produced by See-Saw Films for BBC Two.
Additional cast joining the series include David Dencik (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Alice Englert (Beautiful Creatures) and Ewen Leslie (The Daughter).
Commencing four years on from the end of the events depicted in series one, the second series sees the body of an unidentified Asian girl wash up on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. The case initially seems hopeless, until detective Robin Griffin (Moss) discovers that the girl did not die alone.
Campion will return to direct, again writing alongside Gerard Lee, and will be joined by co-director Ariel Kleiman (Partisan).
Producers are [link...
- 3/22/2016
- ScreenDaily
Ariel Kleiman’s disturbing debut explores the grooming of child assassins by a charismatic cult leader
Inspired in equal measure by a New York Times article about child assassins in Colombia and the myth of the Pied Piper, Ariel Kleiman’s debut feature is a haunting, nonspecific fable about corrupt adults and impressionable children. Vincent Cassel is cult leader Gregori, a charismatic outsider and messianic father figure who has gathered around him a Manson-style family of women and children. For years, Gregori has groomed young Alexander (a revelatory performance from newcomer Jeremy Chabriel) to do his bidding. But when the more worldly 11-year-old Leo arrives, Alexander starts to question Gregori’s authority and the acts of violence which he has been raised to view as a little more than a game.
Co-written with long-time collaborator Sarah Cyngler, Kleiman’s Dogtooth-esque dark drama paints a weird and disturbing portrait of stolen innocence.
Inspired in equal measure by a New York Times article about child assassins in Colombia and the myth of the Pied Piper, Ariel Kleiman’s debut feature is a haunting, nonspecific fable about corrupt adults and impressionable children. Vincent Cassel is cult leader Gregori, a charismatic outsider and messianic father figure who has gathered around him a Manson-style family of women and children. For years, Gregori has groomed young Alexander (a revelatory performance from newcomer Jeremy Chabriel) to do his bidding. But when the more worldly 11-year-old Leo arrives, Alexander starts to question Gregori’s authority and the acts of violence which he has been raised to view as a little more than a game.
Co-written with long-time collaborator Sarah Cyngler, Kleiman’s Dogtooth-esque dark drama paints a weird and disturbing portrait of stolen innocence.
- 1/10/2016
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
Vincent Cassel is the supposedly magnetic leader recruiting children for a robbery scam, but he never catches fire in Ariel Kleiman’s underpowered drama
The chief oddity in this oddly underpowered, anticlimactic and torpidly acted movie from Australian director Ariel Kleiman is the fact that it only comes to life with the final shot: an ingenious and macabre image, promising retributive violence. But that’s hardly worth the price of admission, and for audiences who have stuck with it that far, this flourish might just be something else to get frustrated about.
It’s set in a lawless urban badland of remote, ruined apartment blocks (filmed in Tbilisi), where there is a secret cult run by an allegedly charismatic man called Gregori, played by Vincent Cassel on dismayingly uncharismatic form. He finds desperate single mothers with newborns and persuades them to come as quasi-wives to his strange community, where he...
The chief oddity in this oddly underpowered, anticlimactic and torpidly acted movie from Australian director Ariel Kleiman is the fact that it only comes to life with the final shot: an ingenious and macabre image, promising retributive violence. But that’s hardly worth the price of admission, and for audiences who have stuck with it that far, this flourish might just be something else to get frustrated about.
It’s set in a lawless urban badland of remote, ruined apartment blocks (filmed in Tbilisi), where there is a secret cult run by an allegedly charismatic man called Gregori, played by Vincent Cassel on dismayingly uncharismatic form. He finds desperate single mothers with newborns and persuades them to come as quasi-wives to his strange community, where he...
- 1/7/2016
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Under the diligent guidance of institutions like Screen Australia, Australia seems to have become a very promising country for new emerging directors, and Ariel Kleiman is no exception. Within seconds of his uncompromising first feature's opening, it soon becomes apparent that he is a director who refuses to simply create films that can be passively consumed without any active engagement. Instead he seems to try to drive the act of interpretation onto the viewer, leaving us to puzzle out the film's series of sinister mysteries for ourselves. You can see this gauntlet being thrown down early on, too, when Partisan starts by following in the footsteps of a mysterious woman and child. The pair are framed at an unnatural distance from behind, and we trail...
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- 1/7/2016
- Screen Anarchy
Vincent Cassel stars in Partisan as the charismatic leader of a commune sequestered on the outskirts of a small town. That makes him a formidable figure to his son, Alexander (Jeremy Chabriel), who from outward appearances is just like any other kid, except that he's a trained assassin. Their inevitable conflict forms the dramatic core of Partisan. Ahead of its theatrical release in the U.K. this week, director and cowriter Ariel Kleiman (above) talked with us about working with a famous star as well as a young cast, his possible influences, and what he hoped to achieve with the film. Twitch: What does it mean to you as a first-time feature filmmaker to have somebody like Vincent Cassel come on board? Ariel Kleiman: Oh, it's...
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- 1/6/2016
- Screen Anarchy
After winning an award for Best Cinematography in the World Cinema competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, Ariel Kleiman’s directorial debut Partisan was snapped up by Well Go USA Entertainment and released theatrically in October. The limited theatrical didn’t seem to attract much attention, though Kleiman’s film is exactly the kind of offbeat mixture of violence and social commentary which will secure greater appreciation through a slow burn trickle as time goes on. Featuring a stellar, imperious performance from French actor Vincent Cassel, you can add this to his list of under-the-radar starring turns (Sheitan; Our Day Will Come) worthy of greater renown.
Sure to draw superficial comparisons to other famed pre-teen assassin films like The Professional (1994) or Hanna (2011), Australian helmer Kleiman’s directorial debut instead feels like what you’d imagine Yorgos Lanthimos’ version of The Village (2004) would feel like. Headlined by none other than Cassel...
Sure to draw superficial comparisons to other famed pre-teen assassin films like The Professional (1994) or Hanna (2011), Australian helmer Kleiman’s directorial debut instead feels like what you’d imagine Yorgos Lanthimos’ version of The Village (2004) would feel like. Headlined by none other than Cassel...
- 12/8/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
Partisan (Ariel Kleiman)
Why You Should See It: Whether it’s Martha Marcy May Marlene or Sound of My Voice or this year’s The Wolfpack, we’ve seen a number of films at Sundance deal with communes and closed communities, but few bring the level of danger found in Partisan. The directorial debut of Ariel Kleiman (Sundance jury winner for the short Deeper Than Yesterday) is a patiently unfolding drama that displays the lengths one will go to provide shelter and community,...
Partisan (Ariel Kleiman)
Why You Should See It: Whether it’s Martha Marcy May Marlene or Sound of My Voice or this year’s The Wolfpack, we’ve seen a number of films at Sundance deal with communes and closed communities, but few bring the level of danger found in Partisan. The directorial debut of Ariel Kleiman (Sundance jury winner for the short Deeper Than Yesterday) is a patiently unfolding drama that displays the lengths one will go to provide shelter and community,...
- 12/8/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
In last year’s section which included Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan and Anne Sewitsky’s Homesick, it was John Maclean’s debut Slow West claimed the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangailé landed the Directing Award: World Cinema Dramatic, Umrika was the audience’s won the Audience Award: World Cinema Dramatic. In this year’s dozen offerings we have names we normally associate with Cannes in The Misfortunates‘ Felix van Groeningen (Belgica), The Other Side of Sleep‘s Rebecca Daly (Mammal – see pic above) and A Stray Girlfriend‘s Ana Katz (Mi Amiga del Parque). Here are the selections.
Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.
Belgica / Belgium, France, Netherlands (Director: Felix van Groeningen, Screenwriters: Felix van Groeningen, Arne Sierens) — In the midst of Belgium’s nightlife scene, two brothers start a bar and get swept up in its success.Cast: Stef Aerts, Tom Vermeir, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Hélène De Vos. World Premiere.
- 12/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
From Well Go USA Entertainment comes Australian filmmaker Ariel Kleiman’s directorial debut Partisan starring Vincent Cassel, Jeremy Chabriel, and Florence Mezzara. The release will be available for purchase on December 8 but We Are Movie Geeks has three copies of the Blu-ray to give away in advance.
On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander (Jeremy Chabriel) lives in a sequestered commune, alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori (Vincent Cassel). Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community – and how to kill. As Alexander nears his first job as an assassin, he begins to question the ways of the commune, particularly Gregori’s quiet but overpowering influence. Threatened by Alexander’s increasing unwillingness to fall in line, Gregori’s behavior turns erratic and adversarial toward the child he once considered a son. With the two set dangerously at odds and...
On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander (Jeremy Chabriel) lives in a sequestered commune, alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori (Vincent Cassel). Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community – and how to kill. As Alexander nears his first job as an assassin, he begins to question the ways of the commune, particularly Gregori’s quiet but overpowering influence. Threatened by Alexander’s increasing unwillingness to fall in line, Gregori’s behavior turns erratic and adversarial toward the child he once considered a son. With the two set dangerously at odds and...
- 11/30/2015
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
As 2015 winds down, like most cinephiles, we’re looking to get our hands on the titles that may have slipped under the radar or simply gone unseen. With the proliferation of streaming options, it’s thankfully easier than ever to play catch-up, and to assist with the process, we’re bringing you a rundown of the best titles of the year available to watch.
Curated from the Best Films of 2015 So Far list we published for the first half of the year, it also includes films we’ve enjoyed the past few months and some we’ve recently caught up on. This is far from a be-all, end-all year-end feature (that will come at the end of the year), but rather something that will hopefully be a helpful tool for readers to have a chance to seek out notable, perhaps underseen, titles from the year.
Note that we’re going by U.
Curated from the Best Films of 2015 So Far list we published for the first half of the year, it also includes films we’ve enjoyed the past few months and some we’ve recently caught up on. This is far from a be-all, end-all year-end feature (that will come at the end of the year), but rather something that will hopefully be a helpful tool for readers to have a chance to seek out notable, perhaps underseen, titles from the year.
Note that we’re going by U.
- 10/28/2015
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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